The European Research Executive Agency (REA) has published its new study on the impact of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) scheme on the cooperation between academia and industry. This study is based on the Horizon 2020 (H2020) RISE project results and on the RISE Survey 2021 findings.
Key findings include:
- The MSCA RISE scheme has contributed to establishing lasting, mutually beneficial research collaborations between organisations from the academic and non-academic sectors worldwide. Across the different MSCA schemes the MSCA RISE scheme has the highest participation rate of partners from non-EU countries, with 55% of partnerships coming from non-EU countries and 80% of fellows coming from emerging and developing countries.
- MSCA RISE projects have the highest number of applied and awarded patents across all MSCA schemes under H2020, amounting to about 40% of the entire MSCA programme in the H2020 period.
- RISE also strongly contributed to providing seconded researchers with skills training at host institutions from international partners in the academic and non-academic sectors. RISE Participants indicated the value of the training they had received during the MSCA RISE project as ‘good’ or ‘very good’ (92%) and found that their ability to build international/intersectoral partnerships had increased or strongly increased (94%).
Future Opportunities
The MSCA Staff Exchanges 2023 call will open on 5 October 2023 and will close on 28 February 2024. The call has a budget of €78.5 million.